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Secret Order By Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers To Aides By Murray Waas Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed a highly confidential order in March 2006 delegating to two of his top aides — who have since resigned because of their central roles in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys — extraordinary authority over the hiring and […]

I had a heretical thought today that I’d like to admit to. I’m more interested in the reorganization of the Republican Party than in what the Democrats do. It was bringing up John Dean below that got it in my mind. Last year, he wrote a book, Conservatives without Conscience. His premise is that the […]

I find myself talking about truth these days, and read about it a lot on other blogs. I also find myself fighting the impulse to be sarcastic. It’s so easy to do in this climate – be sarcastic. But I am so bothered by what Ann Coulter, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, etc. do with it. […]

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot I wrote below that I […]

There’s an interesting article in this morning’s Washington Post: GOP’s Base Helps Keep Unity on Iraq. With public opinion tilting firmly toward ending U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (R-Md.) might have expected praise for his votes that would start to bring the troops home. Instead, at town hall meetings […]

I got so into what I was saying about the ultimate "blame" for the war when I was writing the post about Tenet, I forget to mention the most striking thing from the whole interview! Tenet said that on September 12th, 2001 on his way to brief President Bush about al Qaeda’s involvement in the […]

Well, we can’t fault the interviewer for being too soft. He asked hard questions. But I liked Tenet a bit more than I thought I would. He was like a Street Guy – cocky, tough, I bet he had a "walk" like Travolta in Stayin’ Alive when he was a kid. I think his error […]

Tenet Book Blames White House for "16 Words" George Tenet told former Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in October 2002 that allegations about Iraq’s attempt to acquire yellowcake uranium from Niger should immediately be removed from a speech President Bush was to give in Cincinnati. Tenet told Hadley that the intelligence was unreliable. "Steve, […]